The Fidelio Trio Artists-in-Residence 2014/15

Music Department St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra The Fidelio Trio Darragh Morgan (violin) | Mary Dullea (piano) | Adi Tal (cello) Concert Schedule 2014/15

Wednesday 1 October 2014 Wednesday 25 February 2015 Lunchtime Concert Series Evening Concert St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Auditorium, St Patrick’s College, 7.30 pm Mozart – Piano Trio in B flat major K502 Fauré – Piano Trio Op. 120 Michael Nyman – Time Will Pronounce John Buckley – Piano Trio – Piano Trio Two (Irish premiere) Friday - Sunday 5 - 7 December 2014 Schoenberg (arr. Steuermann) – Verklärte Nacht Fidelio Trio Winter Festival at Belvedere House, St Patrick’s College Wednesday 15 April 2015 The Fidelio Trio with Nicholas Daniel () and Lunchtime Concert Series Meghan Cassidy (viola) (see inset for festival details) St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Dorothy Ker – Channel (World premiere) Wednesday 10 December 2014 Mozart – Piano Trio in E major K 542 Lunchtime Concert Series St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Wednesday 8 July 2015 Mendelssohn - Variations Concertantes Evening Concert Suk - Ballade & Serenade Auditorium, St Patrick’s College, 7.30 pm - Road Movies Martin O’Leary – Bluescape Liszt arr. Saint-Saens – Orphée (Poeme Symphonique) Wednesday 21 January 2015 Chausson – Piano Trio in G minor Op. 3 Lunchtime Concert Series St Patrick’s College, 1.15 pm Benedict Schlepper-Connolly – Ekstase II (Irish premiere) Mark Bowden – Airs No Oceans Keep (Irish premiere) Percy Grainger – Colonial Song

Free Admission to all concerts The Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St Patrick’s College 5-7 December 2014 Darragh Morgan (violin) Mary Dullea (piano) Adi Tal (cello) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Meghan Cassidy (viola)

We are delighted to announce our second Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival at St Patrick’s College where we have continued to enjoy a wonderful artistic residency since 2012. This year’s Festival welcomes the unique talents of oboe soloist, Nicholas Daniel and violist Meghan Cassidy as well as the internationally renowned Irish composer, Gerald Barry and Saoi of Aosdána, composer Seoirse Bodley.

The Festival programme embraces three world premiere commissions, complemented by classical chamber music masterpieces by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Dvořák. We will pay homage to composers from the East who all struggled under regimes for their art, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Pärt and Dmitri Shostakovich. The Saturday lunchtime concert features one of Schumann’s most popular works, Quartet in E flat alongside a beautiful Schumann transcription for oboe by - born composer Howard Ferguson. A special welcome goes to our colleagues from the European Chamber Music Teachers Association whose Autumn Gathering takes place concurrently. All concerts will take place within the atmospheric salon setting of the 17th Century Belvedere House, located on the leafy Drumcondra campus of St Patrick’s College. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Fidelio Trio Programme

Friday 5 December 7.30 pm Saturday 6 December 6.30 pm OPENING FESTIVAL CONCERT EASTERN PROMISE Gerald Barry ‘Fanfare’ for Solo oboe (World premiere) Arvo Pärt Fratres for Violin and Piano Schubert String Trio in B flat major D471 Sofia Gubaidulina Chaconne for Solo Piano Mozart Oboe Quartet in F major K370 Schnittke Stille Musik for Violin and Cello Gerald Barry New work for violin and piano Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor (World premiere) Op. 40 Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor K478 Sunday 7 December 3.15 pm Saturday 6 December 1.15 pm FOLK INSPIRATIONS SCHUMANN Haydn Piano Trio in G major Hob.XV:25 (‘Gypsy’) Schumann Three Duos for Oboe and Piano Seoirse Bodley Piano Trio (World Premiere) arr. Howard Ferguson Dvořák Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 (‘Dumky’) Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47 Biographies

The …virtuosic Fidelio Trio… (Sunday Times) perform Bainbridge, Edison Denisov and Beat Furrer whom they diverse repertoire internationally. They broadcast regularly have performed throughout Europe, the USA, South on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WNYC, NPR and in 2010 were Africa and China. featured in a Sky Arts documentary. Since their debut at 2015-16 will see a concert series at St. John’s Smith ’s South Bank they have appeared at Wigmore Hall, Square, London and a residency at University of Kings Place, Purcell Room and Royal House, London, Birmingham. They are artists-in-residence at the Music festivals including City of London, Cheltenham Music Department, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra 2012-2015. Festival, St. Magnus International Festival, Huddersfield www.fideliotrio.com Contemporary Music Festival, Brighton, Vale of Glamorgan, West Cork Music, Belfast Festival at Queens and National Meghan Cassidy (violin) Concert Hall, Dublin, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, “Violist Meghan Cassidy stands out... Casa da Musica (Porto), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris), with a fine tone, a good feeling for Contemporaneamente Festival, Lodi and Palazzo Albrizzi, chamber music and a real personality” Venice (), Johannesburg Music Society, Symphony (Tully Potter, The Strad). Meghan was Space and SubCulture, New York City, Princeton University born in London in 1988 and studied with and MIT Boston. Garfield Jackson at the , where The Fidelio Trio’s most recent CD release is Korngold and she graduated in 2010. She continued her studies with Schoenberg (Verklarte Nacht arr. Steuermann) on Naxos Tatjana Masurenko (Leipzig), Nabuko Imai (Hamburg) and this year they will record the complete Schumann and Hartmut Rohde at IMS Prussia Cove. Meghan enjoys Piano Trios for Resonus Classics. Their extensive a busy career as a Chamber Musician, and Orchestral discography includes the complete Michael Nyman Principal. As a member of the Solstice Quartet (winners Piano Trios for MN Records, Tracing Lines (Robert Fokkens) of the Royal Overseas League 2009), Meghan has on Metier Divine Art, Bulb (Irish Piano Trios), My Broken performed at the Wigmore Hall, Museé d’Orsay, Paris and Machines () and Bartlebooth (Joe Cutler) all on live on BBC Radio 3. She is currently Principal Violist with NMC, Metamorphoses (Haflidi Hallgrimsson), The Piano the Orion Symphony Orchestra. Meghan has also guest Tuner (Sally Beamish, and Judith Weir) and led the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Airs, Waters (Piers Hellawell) for Delphian Records, Rob Royal Scottish National Orchestra, she regularly plays Keeley on Convivium and Luke Bedford’s debut portrait with RPO, CBSO, BSO, BBCSSO and Aurora Orchestra. CD on Col Legno as Ernst von Siemens composer award Highlights this year include recitals at North York Moors winner 2012. Chamber Music Festival and Jack Liebeck’s Chamber The Fidelio Trio have worked closely with composition Music Festival in . and performance students through masterclasses at institutions including Peabody Conservatory John Nicholas Daniel Hopkins University, Curtis Institute of Music, The Royal Nicholas Daniel’s long and distinguished Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music career began when, at the age of 18, and Drama, Birmingham Conservatoire, University of he won the BBC Young Musician of the Manchester, Cardiff University, Cork School of Music, Year Competition and went on to win Stellenbosch Conservatorium and WITS Johannesburg. further competitions in Europe. As one of They have been artists-in-residence at University of the UK’s most distinguished soloists as well as a highly Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Davenport Residency successful conductor, he has become an important holders at State University of New York, SUNY and ambassador for music and musicians in many different Cheltenham Festival’s Composer Academy. fields. In recognition of this, he was recently awarded In promoting contemporary music, they are constantly the prestigious Queen’s Medal for Music. commissioning new works and the range of leading Nicholas has been heard on every continent, and international composers that The Fidelio Trio are has been a soloist with many of the world’s closely associated with includes Toshio Hosokawa, leading orchestras and conductors, working under Charles Wuorinen, Johannes Maria Staud and Michael conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Sir Roger Norrington, Nyman. Their many world and UK premieres include , Jiri Belohlavek, Sir Mark Elder and Sir Gerald Barry, Donnacha Dennehy, Evan Ziporyn, Simon . He has premiered works by composers including Sir , Henri Symphony Orchestra of , Ulster Orchestra, RTE Dutilleux, , Nigel Osborne, , Concert Orchestra, KZN Philharmonic South Africa, James MacMillan and Sir Michael Tippett. Koln Kammer Orkest, Istanbul Symphony Orchestra He made his conducting debut at the Proms in 2004 and Chamber Orchestra. International with Britten Sinfonia, of which he is an artistic associate festival appearances include Wien Modern, Bang and founder member. As a conductor in Europe, he has on a Can Marathon New York, Lucerne Festival, BBC strong associations with Scandinavia, having worked Proms Chamber Music, Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and with the Jonkøping Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. He is a Lapland Chamber Orchestra and Kristiansand Chamber member of the Fidelio Trio with whom has appeared Orchestra. He conducted Britten’s Noye’s Fludde at the at the Wigmore Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Townsville Festival, Australia in 2013. Casa da Musica Porto and SubCulture New York City and was previously violinist with The Smith Quartet Nicholas is oboist to the California-based chamber with whom he made an acclaimed recording of Philip ensemble Camerata Pacifica, Artistic Director of the Glass’ complete string quartets. Darragh has recorded Leicester International Festival and was Artistic Director over 50 CDs for labels including NMC, Naxos, Delphian, of the prestigious Dartington International Summer Mode, Black Box and Nimbus. He has appeared as guest School for 2014. He is a founder member of the Haffner leader of Ensemble Modern, Birmingham Contemporary Wind Ensemble and the Britten Oboe Quartet. Music Group, London Sinfonietta, Musik Fabrik, Athelas www.nicholasdaniel.co.uk Sinfonietta, Macau Orchestra, Les Siecles and performed with the Bang on a Can All Stars. Darragh is professor of Mary Dullea (piano) violin and chamber music at the Royal Welsh College of As soloist and chamber musician, Music and Drama. www.darraghmorgan.com Irish pianist Mary Dullea performs internationally at venues including Adi Tal London’s Wigmore Hall, Casa da Musica Winner of the Muriel Taylor Cello Prize (Porto), Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, and the Making Music Award for Young Phillips Collection Washington D.C., SubCulture New Concert Artists, cellist Adi Tal made her York City, Palazzo Albrizzi Venice (Italy), Johannesburg solo debut at the age of twelve with Music Society and National Concert Hall Dublin. She Israel Chamber Orchestra, and has since broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM. performed with numerous ensembles and orchestras She appears on CDs for NMC, Delphian, Naxos, Altarus, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Jerusalem Divine Art, Convivium and MN records. Concerto Symphony, collaborating with conductors Thomas appearances include RTE Concert Orchestra, KZN Sanderling and James Judd. Adi has performed in the Philharmonic Orchestra and a BBC commission with Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, St. George’s Bristol, Tel Aviv Lontano. Since 2008, Mary has curated Soundings in Museum of Arts and the Pyramid in Paris. Her solo collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, London and chamber music performances have been broadcast and is the pianist in The Fidelio Trio. In August 2014 Mary on BBC Radio 3, Singaporean Radio and Israeli Radio. launched a chamber music festival on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry - ‘Chamber Music on Valentia’. In February 2015 Adi studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal she will serve on the jury of ‘Schubert und die Musik der Northern College of Music and the Guildhall School of Moderne’ International Chamber Music Competition in Music and Drama and has performed in masterclasses by Graz, Austria. Steven Isserlis, Bernard Greenhouse, Lynn Harrell, Boris Pergamenschikov, Janos Starker and Natalia Gutman. She is Director of Performance at the University of Sheffield and is on the teaching staff of the Royal Welsh Adi has participated in the Perlman Chamber Music College of Music and Drama. www.marydullea.com Workshop, Ravinia Festival, Vebier Academy, Schleswig Holstein Master Classes, Banff Music Festival and is a Darragh Morgan regular participant at Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove. She has won awards from the Martin Irish violinist Darragh Morgan has Musical Scholarship Fund and the Raphael Sommer collaborated with many leading Music Scholarship Trust. www.adital.co.uk composers including Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman, Sir John Tavener, Gavin Bryars, Kevin Volans and Michael Finnissy. He has made concerto appearances with the National Workshops/Interactive Seminars Students at St Patrick’s College will have the benefit of working closely with the Fidelio Trio throughout the 2014/15 academic year in the areas of Performance and Musicology, Orchestration and Composition, Music Education and Chamber Music. Additionally, the following events are scheduled to take place during the 2014/15 residency period:

Friday-Sunday 5-7 December 2014 Thursday 26 February 2015 European Chamber Music Teachers Association Performances/workshops by The Fidelio Trio with Autumn Gathering secondary school groups, St Patrick’s College The first ever Autumn Gathering in Ireland of European Chamber Music Saturday 11 April 2015 Teachers Association ECMTA will be Intervarsity Composition Forum at St Patrick’s hosted by St Patricks College Music College in association with CHMHE (Council of Department in association with their Artists in Residence Heads of Music in Higher Education) The Fidelio Trio. The Gathering will coincide with the Selected works from a call for scores from Fidelio Trio’s second Winter Chamber Music Festival. In undergraduate composers nationwide will receive addition to concerts, guest speakers including Raymond a day long in depth reading by The Fidelio Trio. Deane, Miriam Roycroft, Dr Ferenc Szucs, Dr John O Flynn, Submissions to [email protected] by 18 March Christopher Marwood, Sharon Rollston and John O Kane will provide insight into chamber music instruction and Tuesday 14 April 2015 activities in Ireland. The meeting will also feature the Members’ Forum, masterclasses and thematic work groups. Performances/workshops by The Fidelio Trio in association with the Ark Cultural Centre for Children Monday 8 December 2014 Beginning at 10.15am and 12.15pm Performances/lectures at Mater Dei Institute in association with MDI Music Department Wednesday 15 April 2015 Tuesday 9 December 2014 Composer Focus: Dorothy Ker Primary School Visits Following the world premiere of Channel, New Zealand composer Dorothy Ker will unravel this new Workshops by The Fidelio Trio with primary school work in a discussion and demonstration with The classes in North Dublin. Fidelio Trio. Sunday 22 February 2015 Week beginning 6 July 2015 International Composition Forum Chamber Music at Kodály Summer School, St. Patrick’s College 12pm- 6pm St Patrick’s College All day workshop with readings of new works for In association with the Kodály Society of Ireland (KSI) piano trio from an international call for scores, convened by Dr Rhona Clarke. Submissions to carol. [email protected] by 8 December. Week beginning 6 July 2015 Music camp for children 7-14, St Patrick’s College Wednesday 25 Feb 2015 Junior and intermediate ensembles led by The Composer Focus: Judith Weir Fidelio Trio Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir visits St Patricks College for a performance by The Fidelio Trio of her Piano Trio Two, with a seminar focusing on her extensive output Other Related Events and Key Irish Performances

Thursday 4 December 2014 Thursday 26 February 2015 NCH, Dublin Cork Orchestral Society Mary Dullea (Piano), The Irish Canon Series Fauré Piano Trio Op. 120 CD launch - Metier Divine Art of Irish Piano Music Dvorak Piano Trio in E minor Op. 90 (‘Dumky’) John Buckley Piano Trio Thursday 22 January 2015 Schoenberg arr. Steuermann Verklärte Nacht Drogheda International Series Saint-Saens Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 92 Thursday 16 April 2015 Faure Piano Trio Op. 120 Newry Chamber Music Ravel Piano Trio Mozart Piano Trio in E major K542 Beethoven Piano Trio in D major Op. 70 No. 1 (‘Ghost’) Friday 23 January 2015 Ravel Piano Trio Con Brio Sligo Music Series Saint-Saens Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op. 92 Ronan Guilfoyle A Little Blues Ravel Piano Trio

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